"Oh you're bringing back this backpack pressurized sprayer that you've been using for the last 7+ years with CrossBow, 2,4-D, and glyphosate? Ah, the tubing and seals all degraded from mixing all of the herbicides and pesticides together? That's understandable. There seems be quite a bit of pesticide in the hopper too. Perfect, we'd be happy to take that back and give you a full cash return. Oh, no proof of purchase, or receipt? No problem."

I have in fact witnessed that exact event happen on multiple occasions. At one point they literally had a shopping cart piled high with used backpack sprayers still full of pesticides and herbicides. A whole landscaping company came in, one worker at a time, and returned a multitude of extremely used and hazardous sprayers for cash. I know for a fact they just dumped it all out back and poured a bunch down the drain, Then just trash compacted all the sprayers. The landscapers did the same thing with their mowers and trimmers too.

In fact Home Depot used to trash compact brand new BBQ's, mowers, air conditioners, pressure washers, etc just to meet their SHRINK quota per month and quarter. They also had excess of 500,000 packets of seeds, yep they just threw them all away. Awesome company. A+ would work for again

the concept of maintaining a shrink rate so your good months don't make your bad months look really bad is something that i used to have to combat at toys r us when i was a district manager. we'd have dock masters just straight up hand employees legos and video games right off the truck, but couldn't fire them because the store would fall into chaos without them.

Fuck Home Depot. Sounds horrible. Less shrink means more dividend, more profit sharing with employees and lower, less inflated prices for REI. I swear to god we always have some sale going, and the garage sales are amazing.

This might be a long shot, but I'm looking for some swing top bottles. If anyone has a small collection they are looking to get rid of I'd be happy to take them off your hands! trade for money, high fives or friendship points.